“Utagawa school company” directed by Tadashi Goino (the artistic name-Utagawa Syokoku) for the first time represented Ukiyo-E collection of the xylography in National gallery of Armenia in 1994.
After this unusual exhibition, 127 pages from the works of prominent Japanese xylographers of the XIX century such as Utagawa Toyukuni III, Utagawa Kuniaki, Utagawa Sadafusa,Utagawa Kunitsikai, were donated to National Gallery Armenia.

Ukyo-E xylography exhibition will be re-opened in National gallery of Armenia.  It is dedicated to the inter governmental project between the Govements of Japan and Armenia according to which to the   National Gallery of Armenia are provided restoration techniques through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Ministry of Culture of Armenia. The professional equipments have enriched the restoration laboratory of the NGA for oil painting, graphic and xylography art works.

Once again the visitors are invited to enjoy the art of the masters from the Rising Sun’s country.

The partners of the exhibition are “ Hikari” Armenian Japanese Scientific Educational Cultural Center NGO and the Armenian representation of “J T International Luxemburg Es.Ey” organization. During the opening ceremony of the exhibition the ambassador of Japan in Russian Federation his Excellency Tikahito Harada, the Minister of Culture of Armenia Mrs. Hasmik Poghosyan and other honorary guests will be present as well.

The National Gallery of Armenia
The National Gallery of Armenia was founded in 1921 by the decision of the Soviet Armenian Government, as one of the five departments of the State Museum, then known as the Department of Art. Martiros Saryan was appointed Director of the museum, Vrtanes Akhikyan – Head of the Department of Fine Arts. The State Museum was then located on Astafyan (Abovyan) street, in the two-storey tufa building of the boys’ gymnasium (architect V. Simonson).The museum building also housed the public library and concert hall. Besides, the construction served as a shelter for the orphans emigrated from Western Armenia, this being the reason that for the first four years the museum had no room for exhibitions. Quite grounded was A.Lunacharsky’s displeasure, who, at his visit to Armenia in 1924, compared the museum with a big, motley storeroom.

A very noteworthy document, dating back to August 14, 1921, has been preserved. It is the list of the invitees to the opening ceremony of the “Museum of Art”. The range of the participants to this remarkable event is diverse, namely painters, actors, musicians, officials, workers, soldiers, pupils, and students. Among the first visitors of the museum were famous artists Karo Halabyan, Sargis Khachatryan, Taragros, Romanos Melikyan and others. As stated in the document, the opening ceremony attracted 130 people, which in addition to being a statistic fact, also speaks for the people’s enthusiasm for the opening of a new cultural center.

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